Haptic Visions
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Haptic Visions

Rhetorics of the Digital Image, Information, and Nanotechnology

  1. 225 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Haptic Visions

Rhetorics of the Digital Image, Information, and Nanotechnology

About this book

Haptic Visions is about reading messages conveyed about the nanoscale and image use generally, with a particular focus on the rhetorical interactions among images, ourselves, and the material world. More specifically, this book explores how visualizations like Eigler and Schweizer's form persuasive elements in arguments about manipulation and interaction at the atomic scale. Haptic Visions also analyzes how arguments about atomic interaction expressed in images of the nanoscale affect our understanding of nanotechnology, as well as what visualizations like the "IBM" images imply about how digital images and scientific visualization technologies such as the one Eigler and Schweizer used (the scanning tunneling microscope or STM), help constitute arguments.

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Dedication
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Imaging and Imagining Science in the Information Age
  10. 1 Imaging Atoms, Imagining Information: Rhetorical Dynamics of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
  11. 2 Camera Haptica: Blindness, Histories, and Productions of Haptic Vision
  12. 3 Haptical Consistency: Emerging Conventions of the STM Image-Interface
  13. 4 Visual Intelligence: Reading the Rhetorical Work of STM Images in Tropes
  14. 5 Conclusion: Haptic Visions of Science and Rhetoric: Interaction and Its Implications
  15. Notes
  16. Works Cited
  17. Index
  18. About the Author
  19. Back cover